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support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Create empty nodeclass

We need to create nodeclasses before we have nodes available to assign to the node class. This will allow us to set GPFS configuration for the nodeclass through our configuration management scripts and help ensure we have standardized configuratio...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Overflow data placement

When creating a new filesystem with more than 1 pool, GPFS will guess where to put the file data. It would be nice if it was also capable of spillover to other pools, when the pool it guessed for here runs full: RULE 'default' SET POOL 'data' LIMI...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Multi-factor authentication support for shibboleth identity providers

Johns Hopkins uses shibboleth identity providers as SSO and MFA, they would like to have this work with the SVCs and Flashsystems (FS9150, FS7300s)
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

DMAPI session info truncated on non-session nodes

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 invoking dm_query_session on the session node returns session info as expected. However, invoking the same call on non-session nodes returns the first 8 bytes of session info only, followed by the NULL cha...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DMAPI dm_getall_disp returns unexpected dispositions

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 For the set of sessions and dispositions: M1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on the global handle to receive mount events F1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on an fs (fs1) during a mount event...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration for TSM

HP StoreOnce Catalyst enables deduplication to be deployed in flexible, cost effective ways that were not previously possible. It provides enhanced multi-site and cascaded replication options to balance performance, cost, and resiliency. Exploitin...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration